Your teachers' catchprases

[starfish]

Did you have to stand whenever a teacher entered the room? We did.

Only for the French teacher & only to say the Bonjour bollocks, luckily i only had her in first year. Most teachers were in the classroom before us.

 

[berniedicters]

Oh yes. Stand whenever a teacher enters the room. Practically salute should the headmistress happen by. And this is only 12 years ago!

I've a feeling we were supposed to stand when the headmaster came in.

But the reason I don't remember that is because, whether he came into a room I was in, it was to say "Davies, stand up. I didn't see you in school orchestra rehearsal this week, I'll see you in late detention on Monday instead." (which was a lie, because he NEVER took late detention, but was a catchphrase of sorts). So I always had to stand when the HM came in anyway...

I suspect the reason my absence was such a problem was because I successfully managed to telepathically communicate the message "I didn't turn up for orchestra practice because I don't want to be in your stinking orchestra of no-marks and open string merchants, thanks all the same"

 

[catinthehat]

Whatever it is you are fiddling with under the desk show me NOW. (not a good idea for some of the chaps in 4th year maths).

I was presented with a 'CITHs Theasauras' by my students one year in which they had noted all of my catch phrases - which I didnt know I had. Apparently I like the word miscreant and my top phrase is 'if you are being told to look over there make sure you look over here'. Runner up is 'ask who benefits' and 'if you must watch tv ask yourself if its telling you anything other than buy this, think that, you are quite ugly'